Re: Organizing "non-free"
runexe@ntplx.net (Doug Geiger) wrote on 16.06.96 in <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.93.960616180504.349A-100000@thevoid.ntplx.net>:
> On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Chris Fearnley wrote:
>
> > Umm, "non-free to distribute" shouldn't be on /any/ ftp site, right?
>
> I believe 'non-free to distribute' means, you can't sell it for money
> (many people do this - they give the program away, but you can't sell a CD
> with that program on it). In other words, ftp sites=OK, CD's=Not OK
I think it actually means "there are unusual distribution restrictions on
this, you have to check it out first".
Yours is one possible example. Another is the "you can distribute it just
fine, as long as you don't put commercial programs on the same CD" stuff I
believe Aladdin ghostscript has. There are probably more variations.
MfG Kai
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